"look at the big picture!" i remember hearing a lot of that when i was a kid. i guess that was supposed to keep me from playing outside all day and make me do homework. that was quite a long time ago.
i take little pictures. there's only so much that you can fit in a single frame, regardless of whether it is a fish-eye or telescopic. i always wanted to find a way to do a 360-degee picture, to "get" everything in one take, to take it with me. well after several attempts i realized that it works quite differently than i had thought. first of all (since i don't the state-of-the-art gadgets) is boils down to taking many "normal" pictures, regular frames, details. then you sit down and manually put them together. there's one of the hill, one of the ski-lift, one of your profession then there's the hills in the background, then your friends&family, life philosophy, another piece of sky, my bike, a group of passerbys... and when you put it all together it is quite something. the only problem you now can't look at it all at once. if you move back you lose the details - come closer and you lose perspective. not to mention trying to print it.
well after a couple of attempts you realize that focusing on how to take that big picture has led you astray, away from the idea of the picture itself. maybe the picture is in the eye of the beholder. you can only serve the details - final assembly not included...
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